By Susan Dalessandro.
I love this book! It’s sweet and uplifting and I couldn’t put it down. Susan Dalessandro does a superb job of capturing Gabby’s angst as she navigates the issues that come with being a teenage girl in high school—body image, first love, best friends, mean girls, achieving success, and dealing with failure.
Gabby is a high school junior and cross-country runner aiming to be number one. She believes the only way to achieve this is to reduce her weight and train excessively to compete with skinny rivals, a dangerous obsession that threatens to derail her goals. But a chance encounter in the woods with handsome and mysterious CJ sends her on a different path, one that leads to a quest that allows Gabby to uncover a truth about a classmate and find balance in her own life.
(Published in 2025 by The Wild Rose Press.)
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